Iron County register., 1887-01-06

gro,r County geeister
By ELI D. AXE.
1RONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
CHAs. B. FARwEKs., of Chicago, seems to
lead in the race for the Illinois senator
ship to succeed General Logan.
THE French Minister of War has con-
scented to reduction in the supplementary
credit asked for the military department.
AT the workmen's congress, at Brussels,
on the 2Sth, a proposal tie affiliate with
the American Knights of Labor was dis
favored.
President CLEvELxSD's condition,
though hardly to be considered critical is
undoubtedly causing his physicians some
anxiety.
THE Bulgarian agent at Constantinople,
in a note to the Grand Vizier, declares that
the Porte has no right to interfere in the
internal affairs of Bulgaria.
SPEAKER CARLISLE has filed his answer
to Geo. II. Thoebe's notice of contest of
his election to the Fiftieth Congress, in
which he denies all of Thoebe's allega-
tions.
THE safe in the post-office at Wadsw orth,
O.. was blown open on the night of the
27th, and about five hundred dollars in
money, sixty dollars in stamps and two
checks were taken.
GENERAL LoGAS's funeral was arranged
to take place in the Senate chamber at
Washington on the 31st, and the remains
to be inferred in vault there until a
place of final burial is determined.
MR.. GLADSTONE has written for the jan
uary number of the Nineteenth Century an
article entitled ''Locksley Hall and the
Jubilee The article is criticism of the
poem by the light of events of the past
fifty years.
THE annual statement of the savings
banks of Massachusetts is gratifying ex-
hibt. The mum ger of open accounts is
6,039, an increase of 57,252; and the
du1ounU Ol ue pOSltS 10 --Ji, iJJ1JJO, tI Ill
crease of s16, 1894
REV c. B. SCALES, of East Lynn, Ill,
who ran away with Miss Matthews, leav-
ing his wife and five children behind, was
arrested at London, Ont, on the 2Sth. The
parties concerned consented to go back in
charge of a detective.
THE door of the post-office at Eyeter, Y.
H, was pried open with spike on the
night of the 27th, the safe blown open and
robbed of a steel chest containing several
hundred dollars worth of stamps besides
money and valuables.
PRESIDENT ELIOT of Harvard will not
confer the degrees on next commence
ment day. He will sail for Europe soon
accompanied by his wife, and will remain
abroad until next autumn. in hope of re-
gaining his full health.
THE General Land Office has recently re
ceived reports showing the removal, un
der peremptory orders from special
agents, of fences from twenty Enclosures
embracing over pa, 900 acres of land, prin
cipally in the Denver land district
FIRE broke out on the 2Sth in the build
ing occupied by the Detroit (Mich.) Alaska
Sock Company, and by hard work wa:
confined to the building. Several girls il
their lives. Loss, S37, ,0O0; insurance, S17,
500
Mrs. JOHN BURKE, of Scranton, Pa.
while going up stairs on the night of the
9th with lighted lamp fell to the bottom
and was stunned. The lamp exploded anC
set her clothes on fire. Before she coulC
be rescued she was burned almost to {
crisp.
THE commissions of sixty presidential
postmasters will expire in January, 1881
Among the more prominent Offices are
Monterey, Cal; Monmouth, Ill; Hutchin
son, Kas.; Salina, kas.; Eureka, New.
East Portland, Ore; Ogden, Utah, an c
Prairie Du CHEN, Wis.
JAMES A. MCMAsTER, the veteran edito;
of the New York Freenaa1,s Journal anC
the leading Catholic journalist, died in st
Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn, on the Goth
from disorders brought on by Il fall some
weeks ago lie was born in Duanesburg
\. Y, in 1920, and was the son of Prot
estant minister.
THE celebrations by the Central anC
East Washington Christmas clubs were
held on the 9th and the Dhi13ut homie ef